page_title: Timeline of Oxford
section_title: 1300s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Oxford / 1300s
caption_attribution_description: English: The Mob Quad at Merton College.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of the city, University and colleges of Oxford, England.
context_section_description: 1310 – Mob Quad, the first purpose-built accommodation for students, completed in Merton College.
  1314 – 4 April: Exeter College is founded in the university by Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter (statutes 26 April 1316).
  1317 – St Edmund Hall first recorded under this name in the university.
  1318 – John Deydras, pretender to the English throne, claims Beaumont Palace.
  c. 1320
  Original University Convocation House added to University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
  Tackley's Inn built in the university.
  1324 – 24 April: Oriel College is founded in the university by Adam de Brome by licence from King Edward II in honour of the Virgin Mary.
  1326
  21 January: Oriel College chartered.
  2 October: Invasion of England: Isabella of France reaches Oxford.
  1327
  1 February: First record of mayor of Oxford serving the monarch at a coronation feast.
  27 August: Death of Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester. His books are given to the university, where they are installed in a room above Convocation House in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, forming the university's first library.
  1329 – Oriel College's fellows, previously accommodated in Tackley's Inn, move to La Oriole from which the college takes its name.
  1330 – Parliament of England meets at Osney Abbey.
  1332 – University College first acquires property on its modern-day site.
  1333 – November: Following violence between northern and southern masters, a group of the former from Brasenose and Merton migrates to Stamford, Lincolnshire, and attempts to set up a university there. In August 1334, the Chancellor of Oxford obtains a royal writ to suppress it, and it is closed in summer 1335.
  1341 – 18 January: The Queen's College is founded as the "Hall of the Queen's scholars of Oxford" in the university in the name of Philippa of Hainault by her chaplain, Robert de Eglesfield.
  1348 – November: Black Death reaches Oxford, continuing until June 1349.
  1355 – 10 February: St Scholastica Day riot breaks out, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
  1362 – Canterbury College is founded in the university by locally-born Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, for Benedictine monks of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury and secular priests of the province of Canterbury.
  c. 1370s – Franciscan Peter Phillarges, the future Antipope Alexander V, studies in the university.
  1373
  Merton College Library is built.
  Rebuilding of Hythe Bridge in stone begins.
  1379 – 30 June: New College is founded in the university by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, as "The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford" (charter 26 November).
  1381 – John Wycliffe prohibited from teaching in the university for heresy.
  1386 – 14 April: First scholars enter New College, the first college in the university to provide extensively for undergraduate education and also the first with an entrance tower and with a T-plan college chapel.
  1396 – Construction of bell tower at New College begins, the first recorded use of building stone from Headington Quarry.
caption: Merton College's Mob Quad
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